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Babies will
leave DKH
with books
PUTNAM — After a partnership was formed between Day Kimball Hospital and the nonprofit Read to Grow organization’s Books for Babies, the approximately 550 babies born at the hospital’s Burdick Family Birthing Center will go home with a new children’s book.
Parents receive a literacy guide as part of this joint effort to foster children’s language and early literacy development, and to encourage reading aloud to babies from birth.
First-year funding for the program at Day Kimball Hospital is provided by an anonymous donor. As part of the Books for Babies program, maternity unit nurses have started talking to parents about early brain and literacy development, and the important benefits of reading aloud to their babies.